This is the shell script I wrote to help me perform the analysis I did for Quest 5. 1. Perform a site:yoursite.edu search in Google, displaying 100 results per page. 2. Save each page (Google will only give you 10 at most) into a folder named yoursite.edu 3. Download the shell script to the directory [...]
Quest 5 “Many BYU faculty already openly share their syllabi and other course materials on personal websites, through iTunesU, and through other mechanisms … Find as many of the open educational resources being shared by BYU faculty as you can…” It seems to me that discoverability is really going to be the ultimate make-or-break hinge [...]
Up to this point in the course we’ve done a lot of talking. We’ve had great discussions about the history of the open education movement, usage rights, sustainability models, reusability, remixability–even hippies!–and just about everything in between. But now it’s time to get to work! No more talking! This is going to be fun. So, [...]
While the social climate for a policy of openness at BYU is currently in its nascent and humble stages, it is quickly gaining momentum. Despite the lack of an official university-wide “open” policy at BYU, a number of open activities are already well under way. To date, a growing number of OERs and OER-like resources [...]
